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Originally Posted by Kavvy
So this pretty much nails it on the head. You want to make change -hit peoples wallets
I am not proposing this, but you want people to turn off their laptops when they leave home - tax electricity rates more. You want people to support expensive green energy - give home owners larger then market value kickbacks for every electron they put back into the grid. You want me to bike to work - make my round trip of 25km cost more than $2.30 in gas cost. People will only change every so slightly without money to influence them.
The argument isn't if we can turn off fossil fuels, it is how much can we offset them with other sources (at least for a long time).
Climate change or not - I don't think ANYONE thinks that dumping pollution into the environment is a good thing, it just a function of how much we are willing to pay to mitigate it.
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Maybe we should start hitting people in their wallets by charging and enforcing higher royalty rates and ending subsidization of the industry.
Build the cost of oil and gas production in the price, instead of externalizing that cost on society.
If it's good for the goose, it's good for the gander, right?